Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe statement
Below is a list of describing words for statement. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe statement:
- proper closest
- last, inexplicable
- succinct but perfect
- initial bald
- actually accurate
- outrageous but actually accurate
- philosophical or even spiritual
- frantic and blasphemous
- apparently veracious
- righteously beautiful
- flatly unemotional
- unqualified and positive
- moderate and plain
- condensed and scathing
- ancient and vague
- additional unsupported
- entirely practical and prosaic
- simple, self-confident
- particular, plain
- concise and thorough
- calm, fantastic
- hard numerical
- bare unqualified
- plain frank
- clear and plausible
- clear, unimpassioned
- extravagant contemporary
- preeminently logical
- uncharacteristically bitter
- seriously outrageous
- partial or approximate
- carefully misleading
- crisply accurate
- incorrect and extraordinary
- punctiliously accurate
- impersonal, unaddressed
- quaint, convincing
- rude or ignorant
- truthful and yet misleading
- blatantly incorrect
- profound true
- bold and callous
- especially mindless
- earlier brash
- well-nigh unbelievable
- approximately exhaustive
- illuminating and beautiful
- admirably clear and concise
- extraordinary and suspicious
- lucid, scientific
- frank but natural
- short or general
- calm, continuous
- basic and pivotal
- materially false
- deliberate expository
- brief and provisional
- corrupt false
- new, sensational
- finest abstract
- single coy
- fine, explicit
- veracious and satisfactory
- vaguely pessimistic
- remarkably fresh and candid
- senselessly false
- single ignorant
- environmental-impact
- profound, philosophical
- extremely convoluted
- brief and definite
- annual financial
- inaccurate annual
- particularly rude or ignorant
- short but crucial
- wisely candid
- single, tragic
- last enigmatic
- terse official
- mighty dubious
- bald, elliptical
- open and unsolicited
- admirably concise and thorough
- brutally graphic
- halfway political
- oft-repeated but starkly incredible
- totally nonsensical
- tastefully facetious
- classical twentieth-century
- unsatisfactory and acrid
- last, dramatic
- consistent simple
- cold simple
- avowal or ignorant
- vague and highly coloured
- optimistic, semi-official
- competent and precise
- clear-cut uncompromising
- plain, moderate
- remarkably clear and coherent
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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